SRI VENKATESWARA NAMAVALI
INTRODUCTION
Lord Venkateswara also known by various names as Srinivasa, Balaji, Venkatachalapati and Govinda is a divine form of Lord Vishnu. Lord Venkateswara is the main deity of Tirumala Venkateswara Temple situated in Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh. Lakhs of devotees are visiting daily to the Tirumala Temple to have a glimpse of their dear god, and to get his blessings.
In Tirumala, TTD Devasthanams are conducting lot of social welfare schemes for the benefit of the devotees and to the poor people, like providing free food to the devotees, education to children, veda patasala, hospitals, go-samrakshana etc. The TTD is investing the money received from the devotees in Fixed Deposits and utilizing only the interest portion for performing social welfare schemes. Lot of poor students and poor people were got benefited by these schemes.
Every day lot of devotees are donating lakhs of rupees at the Tirumala Venkateswara Temple at Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh. According the famous legend once the sages gathered in one holy place and decided to perform rituals to the gods. The sages asked Bhrigu, to test the goodness among the gods. Bhrigu went to divine worlds and met Indra, Brahma and Shiva and found that they are not competent. Afterwards, bhrigu went to Vaikunta, the abode of Lord Vishnu. At that time, Vishnu didn’t attend him since he was in yoga nithra. Seeing his action, bhrigu got very angry and kicked him at his chest with his feet. Since Mata Lakshmi permanently resides in the heart of Lord Vishnu, she could not tolerate the actions of bhrigu maharishi and left vaikunta and went to the Kolapur city for performing penance. Lord Vishnu pacified Bhrigu maharishi and pressed the feet of Bhrigu maharishi gently through his lotus hands. Bhrigu got very much admired with the actions of Lord Vishnu, and asked him to apologise him for his anger with him and went to the holy place where all the other sages were gathered and informed them that Lord Vishnu is the competent person and the rituals can be dedicated to him.
Since goddess Lakshmi has left him, Lord Vishnu went to the earth for searching Goddess Lakshmi. Since, he was unable to find her, he settled down on Seshachalam hills inside an anthill. Lord Shiva and Lord Brahma incarnated as a cow and a calf respectively and were took care by a shepherd of Chola kingdom in the Seshachalam hills. The cow and calf, everyday used to give their milk in the anthill to reduce the thirst of Lord Vishnu. The Chola king has become suspicious. The next day the king went along with the shepherd and got angry with the divine animals and tried to attack the animals. But on behalf of the animals, Lord Vishnu accepted the attack and got wounded on his forehead. The king and the shepherd were very much worried about their cruel act and both of them were surrendered at the Lord’s lotus feet. Lord Srinivasa had given the king a boon that he would marry his daughter in future. After some time, Srinivasa went to the home of Mata Vakula Devi and took shelter in her home, who was the foster mother Yashoda of Lord Krishna.
In the next birth, the Chola king was taken birth as Akash Raj and his daughter is Padmavathi. Lord Srinivasa met Padmavati and after certain period of time both of them got married in presence of the divine sages, gods and the people in the earth.
It is believed that, during his marriage with Padmavathi, in order to meet the marriage expenses, Lord Vishnu took a large loan from Kubera, and still now through our donations like our hair and wealth he is repaying the debt to Lord Kubera. It is also believed, that Lord Srinivasa would reside at Tirumala till the end of this kaliyuga and he would bless his devotees.
Let us praise the great Lord Sri Venkateswara by reciting his 108 golden names, and let us be blessed.
- om sri venkatesaya namah
- om srinivasaya namah
- om laksmipataye namah
- om ananuyaya namah
- om amrtamsane namah
- om madhavaya namah
- om krsnaya namah
- om sriharaye namah
- om nnanapanjaraya namah
- om srivatsa vaksase namah
- om jagadvandyaya namah
- om govindaya namah
- om sasvataya namah
- om prabhave namah
- om sesadrinilayaya namah
- om devaya namah
- om kesavaya namah
- om madhusudanaya namah
- om amrtaya namah
- om visnave namah
- om acyutaya namah
- om padminipriyaya namah
- om sarvesaya namah
- om gopalaya namah
- om purusottamaya namah
- gopisvaraya namah
- om paranjyotise namah
- om vtekuntha pataye namah
- om avyayaya namah
- om sudhatanave namah
- om yada vendraya namah
- om nitya yauvanarupavate namah
- om niranjanaya namah
- om virabhasaya namah
- om nitya trpttaya namah
- om dharapataye namah
- om surapataye namah
- om nirmalaya namah
- om devapujitaya namah
- om caturbhujaya namah
- om cakradharaya namah
- om caturvedatmakaya namah
- om tridhamne namah
- om trigunasrayaya namah
- om nirvikalpaya namah
- om niskaḷankaya namah
- om nirantakaya namah
- om artalokabhayapradaya namah
- om nirupradavaya namah
- om nirgunaya namah
- om gadadharaya namah
- om sarnnapanaye namah
- om nandakini namah
- om sankhadarakaya namah
- om anekamurtaye namah
- om avyaktaya namah
- om katihastaya namah
- om varapradaya namah
- om anekatmane namah
- om dinabandhave namah
- om jagadvyapine namah
- om akasarajavaradaya namah
- om yogihrtpadsamandiraya namah
- om damodaraya namah
- om jagatpalaya namah
- om papaghnaya namah
- om bhaktavatsalaya namah
- om trivikramaya namah
- om simsumaraya namah
- om jatamakuta sobhitaya namah
- om sankha madyolla sanmanju namah
- om karundakaya namah
- om nilamoghasyama tanave namah
- om bilvapattrarcana priyaya namah
- om jagatkartre namah
- om jagatsaksine namah
- om jagatpataye namah
- om cintitardha pradayakaya namah
- om jisnave namah
- om dasarhaya namah
- om dasarupavate namah
- om devaki nandanaya namah
- om sauraye namah
- om hayarivaya namah
- om janardhanaya namah
- om kanyasranatarejyaya namah
- om pitambaradharaya namah
- om anaghaya namah
- om vanamaline namah
- om padmanabhaya namah
- om mrgayasakta manasaya namah
- om asvarudhaya namah
- om khadgadharine namah
- om dhanarjana samutsukaya namah
- om ghanatarala sanmadhyakasturi namah
- om saccitanandarupaya namah
- om jaganmangaḷa dayakaya namah
- om yannabhokre namah
- om cinmayaya namah
- om paramesvaraya namah
- om paramardhapradayakaya namah
- om santaya namah
- om srimate namah
- om dordanda vikramaya namah
- om parabrahmane namah
- om srivibhave namah
- om jagadisvaraya namah
- om Ma alamelu manga sahita venkatesvaraya namah
“OM”
WRITTEN BY
R.HARISHANKAR